Twenty-four hours after the events, the fatal attack on a Spanish teacher by one of her students in a college-high school in Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) left the whole of the educational community in stupor.
Le Figaro
takes stock of the situation.
Student custody extended
Unknown to the police and justice services, this 16-year-old teenager would have got up in silence, would have locked the door of his class, before stabbing the sternum of Agnès Lassalle, 52 years old.
Despite the efforts of the emergency services dispatched to the scene, the professor did not survive her injuries.
The public prosecutor of Bayonne, Jérôme Bourrier, will speak today at 3:15 p.m. during a press conference to reveal the first factual elements collected by the investigators.
The day before, he had briefly intervened on the sidelines of the speech of the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye, announcing the opening of an investigation for "
assassination
", that is to say murder with premeditation.
The teenager in question, arrested in the wake of the attack on his teacher, was then already placed in police custody, his state of health having been deemed "compatible"
with
such a measure.
This police custody was extended by 24 hours on Thursday morning.
A “discreet” student plagued by “psychiatric disorders”
If little information is leaking about this second-grade student, whose identity has circulated but remains uncertain, a few elements make it possible to identify his personality.
Born in 2007, he is described as being "
discreet
".
He would not have been involved in any altercation with other students of the establishment before, nor even with members of the educational team of the establishment or the teaching staff.
Disturbing fact: after taking action, he reportedly said "
heard voices
" the day before asking him to kill his teacher.
After his act, he would have calmly discussed with a teacher present in the classroom where he fled after the attack,
In addition to these first elements, the trail of a teenager plagued by psychiatric disorders is emerging, the hypothesis having been cautiously confirmed by Pap Ndiaye, the day after the murder of Agnès Lasalle.
“
We will find out quickly.
It is indeed more towards disorders of a psychiatric nature that we are moving.
But we only have information that does not allow us to come to a definitive conclusion
,” said the minister, who went there yesterday.
A minute of silence at 3 p.m., an open psychological cell
This Wednesday, at 3 p.m., a minute of silence will be observed in all schools in France.
The public prosecutor will speak, at the same time, on the ongoing investigation.
A mass will also be celebrated in tribute to the deceased teacher, in the afternoon.
Concerning the rest of the students, those present in the classroom and the others, a psychological cell was opened at the high school on Wednesday.
She again welcomed the students today for a “banalised” day dedicated to meditation and prayer.
Classes have been suspended.